Application-level cloud security

- [Teacher] Let's talk about…Application-Level Security in the cloud…which is extremely important.…The ability for your applications…to deal with security systemically…and have mechanisms around it to…protect themselves is an absolute…necessity in today's world.…So, we have infrastructure logs that we deal with.…So we can look proactively at…information that's being dispatched…and consumed by the application.…We can look at disk writes.…We can look at network reads and writes.…

We can look at other things…which really will show us…that some sort of attack is occurring.…For instance if this disk IO goes up…for no particular reason,…and network traffic is up for no particular reason,…we may have a breach in progress,…and we can take steps to stop that breach…just by looking at the logs…and identifying when something…is occurring that's out of bounds.…Applications stack logs, OS, application servers,…database and programming languages…are important as well.…So, when you design applications,…you design them with security in mind.…

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11/3/2016

Understand the basics of cloud security, including security levels, services available, and selection criteria. Beginning with the basics, instructor David Linthicum explains the business case for cloud security and the levels and models available, including infrastructure-, application-, and data-level security; identity and risk management; encryption; and multifactor authentication. He then dives into the services offered by the top three cloud providers: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. He reviews the compliance issues that affect specific industries, including health care and finance, and reviews the points you need to consider when identifying your security requirements and the security tools, services, and software to best meet those needs.